ACCESSORIES: Black glaze pen, White gelpen, Mini cloud edges stencil from My favorite thingsI am a participant in the Gerda Steiner designs Affiliate Programme. This means that if you click on one of my links and subsequently make a purchase, I will receive a small commission of store credit, at no extra cost to you.

Goodmorning, today a new challenge starts on the As you like it challenge blog. This time we want to know what you prefer to use on your cards: Dies or stencils. I have used dies since I started making cards, but lately I also got interested in stencils. I really love using stencils to create a cloudy background on a card. I want to add those on all the cards I make. But I use my dies also very often on my cards. I really love the basic shapes, likes circles, rectangles and squares. I love them even more when they have a nice edge, like stitching or dots. So on this card I decided to used dies, I had to use dies from my favourite brand: Crealies. A nice die adds a little something extra on your card. I don't use a lot of embellishments, but when my die-cuts have a nice decorated edge, I don't think a lot of other embellishments are needed. This time Crafty ribbons is our sponsor.For today I have made a card without an image on it, that almost never happens. I needed to make a birthday card, so I have die-cut a large star with Star dies from Action from striped purple design paper from the Striped silly paper pack from Sunny studio. I have die-cut a circle frame from black cardstock with the Crea-nest-lies XXL 33 from Crealies. The sentiment is die-cut from black cardstock with the Stencils SL163 from Studio light. I have cut the words three times and glued them on top of each other, love that look. Then I coloured the letters with the Clear Spectrum noir sparkle glitter pen to make the words extra festive. I doodled lines with a black pen along the edges of the card. Then I added paint splatters on the card with Black gesso from Finnabair. I wanted some more splatters so with a stamp from the set Forget me not from Tracey Hey and Alpaca pals I stamped a couple more on my card. Then I glued the frame and the star on the card. I glued the sentiment on top of the star on the card. Then I decorated the card with purple enamel dots that have the perfect colour to match my design paper.

Goodmorning, today a new challenge starts on the Di's digi designs challenge blog and this time we have a bingo challenge. On your card you have to use the items from one of the rows of this bingo card. On my card I used items from the following rows: Flowers - Digi image - Ribbon/bow and Sentiment - Flowers - Hand coloured image.

Today a new challenge start on the As you like it challenge blog. This time we want to know what you prefer: Making one layer cards or cards with many layers. I am not a big fan of many layers on a card. I am not good in combining different design papers with each other. So for this challenge I decided to make a one layer card. I really love it to print the digital stamp in a pretty large size on the front of the card and then I add the sentiment. This challenge we are being sponsored by Polkadoodles.From Polkadoodles I have received the image Feel better soon elephant from Polkadoodles. I printed the image and sentiment on the front of my card. I printed the image also on a piece of masking paper. I coloured the image with my Polychromos pencils and the black glaze pen. Then I masked the image and coloured around the image with Spun sugar and Gathered twigs Distress ink.

Today I am posting a card that I made for the newest challenge on the Di's digi designs challenge blog. This time we want you to include an animal on your card. I have made a really special card for this challenge. My aunt will become a grandmother this week, because my cousin and his girlfriend are expecting a baby. My aunt asked me to make her a card for the little girl. ;) On the card I used the digital stamp Butterfly ted from Di's digi stamps. I have coloured the image with my Polychromos pencils, the black glaze pen and a white gelpen. Then I have fussy cut the image. On a piece of white cardstock I made a background for the image with Tumbled glass and Mowed lawn distress ink. With the Scalloped edges die collection from Clearly besotted (retired) I have die-cut a scalloped border from yellow striped design paper from the Proper pinstripes paper pack from My favorite things. I glued it under the white cardstock. I have made the right corners round with the Corner chomper. I have glued everything with foamtape on a kraft card. I glued all the images with foamtape on the card. The bottom half of the card is a bit empty, but I will add the name of the baby under the image when the baby is born. Now it is still a secret. ;)

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Today I am posting a card that I have made a while ago. I have used an old stampset from My favorite things on it. These are the Forest friends from My favorite things (retired). I have stamped a couple of images and coloured them with my Polychromos pencils and the black glaze pen and then I have fussy cut all the images. On white cardstock I made a background with the Mini cloud edges stencil from My favorite things and Tumbled glass distress ink. I have cut 2 hills from white cardstock and coloured those with Mowed lawn distress ink and then I glued them on the card. I have glued yellow design paper on a card and then I glued the image panel on the card with foamtape. With a Flower die I have die-cut a couple of flowers from the yellow design paper and I glued those on the card. I decorated them with a black dot that I made with the black glaze pen.

Inside the card I added a little pocket for a giftcard. I have die-cut the pocket from the yellow design paper with the Gift bag die from Waffleflower. I glued an animal that I didn't use on the front of my card on the pocket.

Today I am posting a card on the blog from Gerda Steiner designs. I have made a card with the digital stamp Umbrella mouse from Gerda Steiner designs. I have coloured the mouse with my Polychromos pencils and the black glaze pen. With a white gelpen I have added dots on the scarf. I have fussy cut the mouse. On a white card I added a strip of masking tape and then I made a floor for the image with Brushed corduroy and Gathered twigs Distress ink. With Broken china Distress ink I have added a sky for the image. In the sky I stamped a couple of raindrops from the set Chance of rain from Mama elephant with Broken china Distress ink. I glued the mouse with foamtape on the card. Next to the image I have stamped a sentiment from the set Chance of rain from Mama elephant.

ACCESSORIES: Black glaze pen, white gelpenI am a participant in the Gerda Steiner designs Affiliate Programme. This means that if you click on one of my links and subsequently make a purchase, I will receive a small commission of store credit, at no extra cost to you.